Elektron Musical Instruments

Wow! That SAM thing sounds cool!  Are there any examples on the internet where I can hear the voice of SAM? I'm curious how it differs from other text-speech software.
Maybe someone could point me to a .C64 program to run it on my emu!?!?
-Chris


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: R. Cliff Young 
  To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [elektron] Re: Sampler / SAM


  On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, oldmanfury wrote:

  > I think that the "secret" project elektron refuses to talk about is 
  > porting SAM the "Semi Automatic Mouth" from the original C64 machine 
  > code over to SIDStation.  They liscensed it from SoftVoice Inc.  This 
  > program was essential - the best voice synthesizer at the time.  I 
  > used to crank-call people using it.  

  Heh heh, I guess I'm not the only one that did that.  I had a 1660 modem 
  hooked to my C64--that was the one that had an audio splitter cable, since 
  it supported touch tone dialing by using the C64's SID to generate the 
  tones. :)  I wrote a little program that generated the appropriate tones 
  when you pressed the relevant keys (0-9, #, *), had the function keys 
  mapped to text strings that'd be sent to SAM (and could be redefined on 
  the fly), and you could always hit Return and type whatever you want to 
  be output through SAM.  Pretty silly, really, but at the time I had fun 
  with it, having entire phone conversations just tapping function keys and 
  typing away.

  SAM stood for "Software Automated Mouth" actually, and I believe it was 
  distributed by Don't Ask Software.  To this day I've never really heard 
  any significant advances in voice synthesis, or at least text-to-speech.  
  SAM had some pretty impressive text-to-speech capabilities considering its 
  low memory footprint (maybe 12-18K?  I can't recall...).

  > If elektron really was going to add SAM to the sidstation, I'd buy 
  > one.  As it stands, I'll just have to be happy with quadrasid and my 
  > MD :)
  > -gerald

  Maybe they'll include it in their mythical SAMpler.  :)  That'd seriously 
  be a good idea for a generator to bundle with.  I like the idea of an 
  Elektron sampler, but I'd be really keen on it if you could do all sorts 
  of whacky stuff without ever having to hook up an external input.  
  Basically, I'll take the feature list appearing in an earlier message, 
  plus, oh, something on par with a NORD modular plus SAM for internal 
  sample generation. :)

  -- 
  R. Cliff Young <nukenin@...> /\/ Chaos Never Died
        http://www.roguebard.com/



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